Portraits of Voyages: Lithuania - The Hill of Crosses

Portraits of Voyages: Lithuania - The Hill of Crosses

2013 · 4 min · ★ 7.0 · Animation

A short animated telling of the Hill of Crosses in Lithuania, a place of pilgrimage consisting of a formidable accumulation of crosses that was often razed during the Soviet period. Coming to replant a cross was then an act of resistance.

Directed by Bastien Dubois · Written by Bastien Dubois

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